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Querida Lugo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Increasing the diversity representation among students of color is a critical need in colleges and universities of today. Education institutions are tasked with implementing imaginative ways to recruit, retain, and graduate students of color, especially at Predominately White Institutions (PWIs). Multicultural mentorship programs at PWIs have been…
Descriptors: Universities, Multicultural Education, Program Development, Program Implementation
Johnna L. Bruhn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Industry certification and apprenticeship programs are vital in closing the labor shortage gap while improving graduation rates nationwide. New Mexico has trailed behind the rest of the nation in rebalancing the emphasis on skilled trades, particularly in rural schools. This phenomenological study interviewed ten Career and Technical Education…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Rural Schools, Program Administration, Administrators
Christopher B. Lund – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This Problem of Practice study explored and synthesized the lived experiences of specialized project managers as they grappled with the challenges of aligning technical and people-centric change. For these individuals within a fast-growing organization in a complex and rapidly evolving higher-education marketplace change is mandatory and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organizational Change, Program Administration, Administrator Attitudes
Jeannie Black – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research generally shows that the most common business-related difficulties in for-profit higher education institutions are low productivity and declining revenue streams. The purpose of the generic qualitative study was to explore how nationwide for-profit higher education institutions implement strategies for continuous improvement in their…
Descriptors: For Profit Colleges, Educational Improvement, Total Quality Management, Productivity
Tammy L. Ford – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions of academic student support program leadership regarding best practices, experiences, and behaviors that influence their work toward retention and graduation efforts. Three research questions resulted from the study's purpose: (a) What are program directors' perceptions regarding their…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Leadership, Best Practices, Administrator Behavior
Watts, Laura Anaelise – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While research around attrition during doctoral programs exists, the lived experience of grief during a doctoral program has little footing in the current literature. This autoethnography examined the lived experience of one doctoral student, acting as both the researcher and the researched. The purpose of this study was to have a meaningful…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Grief, Self Concept
Leah Denise Brundidge – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Accounting for less than five percent of those who hold Assistant and Associate Athletic Director positions (National, 2021), Black women often lack access to roles of power and status within NCAA Division I college athletics. Despite the growth in participation for women in sports and athletics over the years, athletic administration positions…
Descriptors: Athletics, Women Administrators, Work Experience, African Americans
Jayson Smikle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
African American males in senior athletic administrative positions at NCAA Division I predominantly white institutions face several challenges and barriers while navigating their career paths. These challenges and barriers include a lack of inclusion and understanding, tokenism, inadequate support, macroaggressions, and societal and institutional…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Institutional Characteristics, Predominantly White Institutions, African Americans
Jordan King – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The learning journey toward sustainability requires the generation of action-oriented knowledge to understand the progress and potential adaptation of strategies to facilitate collective transformation. One integral area where advancing these strategies is essential is higher education. While efforts in the field have identified relevant learning…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices, Educational Innovation, Sustainability
Elizabeth Susanne Goode Dimond – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Inclusive postsecondary education programs (IPSE) for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) are relatively new, having their formal beginning in the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA; P.L. 110-315) of 2008. These programs vary greatly and are found in urban, suburban, and rural areas of the United States. Those programs in rural areas…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Practices, Rural Schools, Postsecondary Education
Heather Nicole Mashburn – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Character education has the potential to increase student academic performance as well as social and emotional skills regardless of socio-economic level, race, gender, or grade level. Yet prior theory and research suggests there is a lack of preparation for educational leaders in developing and implementing aspects of character education. Most…
Descriptors: Values Education, High Schools, Barriers, Instructional Leadership
Sheree M. Moser – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Teacher shortages in K-12 schools have created unique challenges for teacher preparation programs (TPPs). University instructors face the task requirements of supporting candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds at the undergraduate and graduate level. While some of these candidates enter higher education programs skilled, eager, and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Intervention, Vocational Education, Teacher Educators
Kandace Betts – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The problem examined at the local site was that online faculty members were resistant to their new role of online advising and program administrators felt faculty may be underprepared for the task. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of online faculty advisors and program administrators regarding the challenges…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers, Computer Mediated Communication
Shuzhen Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study explores U.S. principals' challenges, successes, and best practices in leading Mandarin Chinese immersion programs in high-need rural schools in a Midwestern state. The study addresses cultural efficiency, increasing student enrollment through principalship preparation, and attracting the interest of parents…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
Elleh, Festus U. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the relationship between software-enabled project management techniques and the triple constraints (time, cost, and scope). There was the dearth of academic literature that focused on the relationship between software-enabled project management techniques and the triple constraints (time, cost, and scope). Based on the gap…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Program Administration, Online Surveys, Administrator Attitudes
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